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Blockbuster streaming coming to some Samsung BD players and HDTVs
SV Staff  |  Jul 14, 2009
There has been a lot of talk lately about all the various boxes that now stream Netflix's on-demand service, but Blockbuster is apparently eager to remind us that big red isn't the only game in town. Starting in the fall, owners of certain...
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Audio Video News
Product Promotions Proliferate
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 14, 2009
As the economy continues to stutter, what novel ideas are manufacturers coming up with to tempt cost-conscious consumers?
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Other Tech
Midtown Movie Palace
Will Greenwald  |  Jul 13, 2009

Clearview Cinema's Ziegfeld Theater in midtown Manhattan is one of New York's last remaining movie palaces. While the city has a ton of many-screened, IMAX-equipped, state-of-the-art multiplexes, few have as much character as the single-screen Ziegfeld.

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Audio Video News
Blu-ray Is a Memory Machine
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 13, 2009
Panasonic has marked the launch of its Blu-ray recorder line in the United Kingdom with an academic study that puts a price on memories.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Jonas Brothers - The 3D Concert Experience (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Jul 10, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/jonas.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Kevin, Joe, and Nick invite you inside their personal world for an all-inclusive look at the band with a 3D perspective. Follow the boys through a tour of New York radio stations as throngs of teenage girls burst into tears at the site of the budding rock stars, and get up-close and personal at one of their concerts from the safety of your own home.

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Audio Video News
Some DTV Stations Suffer in Transition
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 10, 2009
Some DTV stations are having trouble reaching their viewers in the wake of the DTV transition.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
More financial wrongdoing!
Rad Bennett  |  Jul 09, 2009
Sony
Movie •••• Picture ••••½Sound •••• Extras •••½
Money might not be the root of all evil, b
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Blu-ray Player Reviews
Oppo BDP-83 Universal Disc Player
David Vaughn  |  Jul 09, 2009

Blu-ray just celebrated its 3-year anniversary, and many of the issues that plagued the format are nearly forgotten&mdash;profile issues, pathetically slow boot-up, and of course, HD DVD. For a while, there was really only one choice if you wanted a high-performance Blu-ray player&mdash;the Sony PlayStation 3&mdash;but the market has evolved, with models from Panasonic, Pioneer, and Samsung making inroads into the PS3's huge market share.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Push (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 09, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/push.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT><i>Hang on tight as a gang of super-powered paranormal operatives takes you on a white-knuckle thrill ride. The excitement starts when a future-seeing Watcher (Dakota Fanning) convinces a telekinetic Mover (Chris Evans) to help steal a briefcase that holds a billion-dollar secret. But to outrun government agents, they must enlist a mind controlling Pusher (Camilla Belle) who could be their salvation - or their doom.</I>

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Knowing (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 09, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/knowing.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT><i>In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury). But it's Caleb's father, professor John Koestler (Nicholas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As John further unravels the document's chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events - the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son.</I>

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